Art Buchwald Quotes

The economy will bump along, with most of us struggling to make ends meet, while the same people who nearly wrecked the economy altogether will be making more money than they can count.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

The United States economy is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where the other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit runs out the game will stop.

When Americans—or citizens of any country—are faced with significant economic forces beyond their control, they struggle for answers, and often act out of frustration. The result is more turbulent politics, more strident cultural nationalism, and violence, as people seek ways to improve their economic situation … when the pie is shrinking.

When you see celebrities say, 'I hope the economy bottoms out to get rid of Trump,' I think that helps Trump.

The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke.

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

Globalization has benefited middle-income less than either richer or poorer countries.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

The globalization of the economy has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else in the history of the world.

There is one iron law of history. When a country’s economy starts to decline, if it continues to decline, it will lose its greatness.

It’s hard to be a fan of the free market these days when the free market has just driven the economy over the cliff.

I think that this is the most significant financial crisis in the post-War period for the United States, and it has in fact a global reach.... I think it is extraordinarily important to understand that, as we have seen in many previous examples of different countries and different times, choking up of credit is like taking the lifeblood away from the economy.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.